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J. S GORTON.

SGISSORS FOR CUTTING ,FELT ON A BEVEL.

No. 291,591. Patented Jan. 8, 1884 INVENTORQ W ATTEST.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES S. GORTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE VVILLCOX 85SCISSORS FOR CUTTING FELT ON A BEVEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,591, dated January8, 1884:.

Application filed October 6. 1583. (No model.)

TO -61,25 whom, it may concern..-

Be it known that 1, JAMES S. GORTON, of New York city, in the county andState of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devicesfor Cutting Felt and other Fabric on a Bevel, which improvement is fullyset forth in the following specification.

. This invention has reference more particularly to the formation ofabevelecl edge on the brims of felt hats or bonnets; and it consists inanew bevel-cutting device applicable to this and other purposes.

In carrying out the invention one or both the blades of a pair of shearsorother cutting apparatus of any ordinary or suitable construe tion areprovided with a tipping-piece arranged to project beyond thecutting-edge, so that in the act of cutting the fabric will have to bebent downward or upward, as the case may be, in order to be brought incontact with the cutting edge or edges. It will thus be oblique to theplane of movement of the cuttingedge, and will be retained in thisposition, so as to be out on a bevel. One or more of thesetipping-pieces may be attached to ordinary hand or power shears, torotary shears, and to other forms of cutting devices. One tipping-piecewill suffice, at least for the beveling of hat-brims.

The following is a description of the best mode in which it has beencontemplated to apply the principle of the invention, reference beingbad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of thisspecification, and which represent a pair of hand shears or scissors.

Figures 1 and 2 are'side views of the shears or scissors, and Fig. 3 acrossset-tion of the blades.

The shears or scissors are of ordinary construction; but atipping-piece, A, is secured to one of the blades B. so as to projectbeyond the edge of blade B. The distance which the tipping-pieceprojects beyond the cuttingedge depends upon the width of the blade andthe angle at which it is desired to cut. As shown, the tipping-pieceprojects about one twenty-fourth part of an inch, and the cutting-edgeis about one thirty-second (5 part of an inch distant from the nearestpoint of the tipping-piece. The tipping-piece may be formed of variousmaterials and shapes,. and be attached in a variety of ways. As shown,it is in the form of a brass plate set in a recess in the steel blade,and secured therein by solder. In use, the shears are held with theblade 13 down.

The principal object of the instrument is to bevel the edge of hatbrimspreparatory to wiring in the manner described in my application forwiring hat-brims, 850., filed of even date herewith. For this purposethe brim is placed wrong-side up, sothat the under blade, B, whichcarries the tipping-piece, is on the outer or right side of the brim.

I amaware that heretofore various forms of wire-cutters have beendevised, in which clamping-jaws have been arranged to holdthe cut end ofthe wire after severance, and that these in some cases have hadprojections be yond one or both edges; also, that a pruninginstrumenthas been made with a support projecting beyond the edge of the lowerknife, so that the bearing conforms to the inclination of the limb, theupper knife working between this support and the lower knife; but in allthese cases both the construction and object of the apparatus differfrom those made in accordance with the present invention.

I claim In shears, scissors, or other cutting apparatus, thecombination. with a cutter or blade, of a device substantially as hereindescribed, arranged to project beyond the cutting-edge in closeproximity thereto on the outside of said edge or side opposite from theco-operating cutter or blade for presenting or holding the fabricoblique to the cutting edge or edges, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have s gned this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing Witnesses.

J. S. GORTON. Witnesses:

CHAS. H. WILLooX,

J. PARMLY.

